[Bug 310244] New: kded blocks when selecting text in konsole

[Sandro Mani]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310244

            Bug ID: 310244
          Severity: normal
           Version: 4.9.3
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
           Summary: kded blocks when selecting text in konsole
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: manisandro at gmail.com
          Hardware: Other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: kded
           Product: kdelibs

The effect is the same as in bug 306338, but the cause appears to be different.

On the first login after boot, very often selecting text in console results in
konsole hanging, which is due to the fact that kded blocks (with which konsole
communicates through dbus). Appears to be related to the fact that the computer
is behind a proxy and the cntlm daemon does not properly start on boot, see
below.

My investigations of the issue so far seem to indicate that kded blocks as a
result a dbus call to "org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement", "backendCapabilities",
see attached backtraces and analysis. However, I didn't manage to get further
than what I described in the attachment.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Place computer behind proxy, set proxy in kconf network settings
2. Start pc, login, open konsole
3. Start a selection in konsole: With high probability, it will hang.



Some possibly relevant background: The affected computer is behind a ntlm proxy
in the office. I have installed cntlm to get through that ugly beast, but for
some reason reason (probably service trying to start before network is up), the
service does not successfully start on boot, and I always have to manually
restart it when I log in. This is relevant for the following observations: - if
I log into kde without cntlm enabled, I konsole freezes when selection, plus
many other applications (dolphin, rekonq, kfiledialog to name a few) take
awfully long to start, and logout does not work.
- if I do init 3 followed by init 5 to restart the session, in the subsequent
login everything works fine
- if I start cntlm from a vritual terminal before logging into kde, everything
works fine The proxy is configured for all protocols in the respective kde
control module.

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